Re: feature request, shift-enter to inline a newline

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 06:40:09PM +0100, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
> as title says, pressing shift enter would produce a newline into all
> instead of send the cmd away

Two issues.

1) This is terminal dependent.  Shift-Enter doesn't do anything different
   from Enter on my terminal (rxvt-unicode) for instance.  If the terminal
   doesn't differentiate between these key combos, then there's nothing
   bash can do.

2) What exactly would it *mean* to "produce a newline instead of send
   the command"?  Are you simply hoping to go back and edit the command
   later?  If you know in advance that you're writing a multi-line command
   that you may wish to edit retrospectively, I strongly advise you to
   write it in a script using a real editor.  Either by explicitly
   running an editor with a filename, or by using bash's "call $EDITOR
   for me" feature (ESC v in vi mode, ctrl-X ctrl-E in emacs mode).